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Sickle Cell Free, Part 4: Life After Stem Cell Transplant by Tosin Ola Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted Fri 17 Feb 2012 3:20am Written by Sickle Cell Warrior on 17 February 2012 In Part One , we met Raheem C., a 33 year old gentleman that recently completed the stem cell transplant in NIH with a generous gift of life from his brother. On the Sickle Cell Warriors Facebook page , we grilled him to find out everything we ... Read on »
Blood Stem-Cell Transplant Regimen Reverses Sickle Cell Disease in Adults by Tosin Ola Registered NurseHealth Maven Posted Fri 11 Dec 2009 1:22am Hey everyone, someone sent this to me today. I can't believe it but it looks like adult blood stem transplant to reverse sickle cell is officially a reality! WOOHOO!!! I know the study is still in its experimental stages, but I can't help it but to be totally stoked and excited. A team led by Dr. John Tisdale at the National Institutes of Healt ... Read on »
Stem-Cell Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease by P.Allen Jones Posted Tue 15 Dec 2009 12:00am Anyone Want a Bone Marrow Transplant or maybe a Stem Cell Transplant? The airways are popping. The media blitz is in full affect. Massive editorial posts have been sent all over the internet. The word is out. There MAY be a cure for Sickle Cell Disease. According to a New England Journal of Medicine report dated December 10, 2009, res ... Read on »
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation for sickle cell by Mark Levin Posted Fri 15 Apr 2011 1:56pm Allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is a potentially curative treatment option for selected individuals with sickle cell disease or thalassemia major.In practice, only children are candidates before they accumulate too much end organ damage to be transplant candidates.There have not and are not likely to be randomized s ... Read on »
Australian Woman Has Stem Cell Transplant of Bone Marrow to Treat Multiple Sclerosis-Walking Again and Pain Is Gone by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Fri 11 Feb 2011 12:57pm This is a pretty amazing story and she’s the second person in Australia to under go the procedure.  She says it’s a miracle so far as she’s up walking again after being in a wheel chair for 2 years and if that were me I would be ecstatic too. In 70 percent of those treated there is no evidence of the recurrence of the disease over 100 months. ... Read on »
“Berlin Patient” and His Doctor Are Convinced Their Cure for HIV is Authentic With Stem Cell Transplant by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Wed 12 Sep 2012 11:35pm This is an interesting case since it was somewhat stumbled upon by accident with a donor of cells that gives a natural resistance to the virus.  A very small number of people have this and the theory was that a transplant with this resistance would cure the virus and so far it’s been 5 years and he claims to be free of it.  Earlier this year th ... Read on »
How Can Stem Cell Transplant Treat Diabetes by tcmremedy Posted Tue 05 Jun 2012 10:19am In Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital, Stem Cell Transplant is used to treat Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy. This is a brand new method but has achieved good effects in clinical practice. The following is about how Stem Cell Transplant treat Diabetes. What is Stem Cell Transplant? Stem Cell Transplant is based on the unique characte ... Read on »
Stem Cell Transplants Improve Muscle Mass by WorldHealth.net Posted Tue 23 Nov 2010 10:32pm Posted on 2010-11-22 06:00:00 in Musculoskeletal | Stem Cell Research | With age, the ability of skeletal muscle to adapt to changing environmental needs, and meet continuous maintenance and regenerat ... Read on »
Stem cell transplants help kidney damage by David Granovsky Posted Sun 13 Feb 2011 12:00am “Transplanting autologous renal progenitor cells (RPCs), (kidney stem cells derived from self-donors), into rat models with kidney damage from pyelonephritis – a type of urinary infection that has reached the kidney – has been found to improve kidney structure and function.” Stem cell transplants help kidney damage Tamp ... Read on »
Stem Cell Transplant For Paralyzed Dachshund Enables Him To Walk Again–Hope for Humans (Video) by Medical Quack Patient ExpertHealth Maven Posted Mon 19 Nov 2012 3:05pm This is a cool story in  more ways than one.  The article mentions that no dogs were paralyzed for this trial and I believe it being a dachshund owner myself.  Not my current dog but the one before him has 2 back surgeries with disc repairs and it wasn’t easy or cheap to say the least and if something like this treatment would have been around, ... Read on »